And i guess this one should be no different...

I can remember being struck by an oddity on the TV the first time i came to the US. I happened to catch a movie called "my name is Joe" which despite being in english... was subtitled (i didnt find i needed them, but apparently people have issues with Glaswegian)

It does however bring to mind othet programs which might need subtitled for the new world (or even the rest of the UK).

so here's a couple to start (feel free to add others)

Taggart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHzL9...eature=related

Rab C Nesbit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7VoFiagfs

My dvd copy of The Great Escape is sorta funny in that attempts to "translate" what Gordon Jackson's MacDonald is saying is incorrect in some instances.

Which i could understand if translating to a different language... but for just an accent it's a bit much...

I have a good friend who is German and whose English is flawless. She was thrilled when DVDs came out so she could turn on the subtitles when she needed them.

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Originally Posted by madmacs

Which i could understand if translating to a different language... but for just an accent it's a bit much...

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Sometimes an accent is so different from what a person is used to hearing that it might as well be a different language, which is to say that the person can't understand a word.

I, for one, appreciate subtitles. For some reason I have a hard time understanding people on telephones, radio, and television, even when they're speaking in the same dialect and accent as I do. Factor in the noisy background of a pub (or any other noisy place where the audience isn't focused solely on the television) and subtitles can be quite a blessing.

A've nae-bother wi' Rab C but tha' Taggarrt gadgie, thass murrrderrr!

Don't forget Taysiders in Space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLxLmFhROqY

and the missin' waean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR23_8cuPG8

There's loads more "Chewin the Fat" and "Karen Dunbar" on you-tube but I doubt I could post much of it here.

one agrees

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Originally Posted by Tobus

Sometimes an accent is so different from what a person is used to hearing that it might as well be a different language, which is to say that the person can't understand a word.

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I can attest to this. Back in 2007, I was attending the World Scout Jamboree in Chelmsford, England. We were camped next to a Scout unit from the area around Waterford, Ireland. A couple of the boys had a VERY thick brogue, so much so that their fellow Scouts had to interpret from time to time. I'm not sure if they were deliberately speaking in a 'thicker' accent than some of the others (a couple of the boys were from time to time - trying to be funny, I guess), but some of our more 'sheltered' Kentucky Scouts - those that lived in more rural areas of the state - couldn't make heads or tails of even the more intelligible Irish Scouts. (And some of the Irish Scouts had a hard time understanding some of the Kentucky, particularly the 'Pahkvuhl' - Pikeville - accents :). )

I can understand most accents fairly well, as long as the speaker is trying to be understood. In those instances they're speaking a little more slowly and deliberately than when they're just making a quick observation/quip.